There’s a kind of ‘flush’
Edener Benitez Fabella
24 Mar 2008
While most people living on earth are singing a song made popular by Karen Carpenter ‘There’s a kind of ‘flush’ all over the world tonight’ an international agency reported millions of Filipinos don’t have toilets?
So I ask you, if you are truly a genuine leader sincerely looking after the welfare of your people not out to line up your pockets, which would you prioritize: (a) broadband network or giving people in far off places a chance to flush? (b) Cyberspace education where few monitors will likely end up hanging in mango trees for lack of classrooms, or pumping more money and efforts to help prevent typhoid, dengue, diarrhea and other ancient times diseases?
If government officials have no scruples spending people’s money on frivolous things such as junkets and mansions etc., could they find it in their hearts to at least give people toilets to wean them away from using patpats and damos? Is it too much to ask?
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